Book Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

I hope that if the people who read my work encounter people in the real world who are like the characters that I write…

— Jesmyn Ward

I come from a family of readers. Our house smelled of book.

— Megan Abbott

I don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English.

— Christopher Castellani

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

— Nora Roberts

“And yet, wasn't the terrific thing about stories the fact that they joined readers together, that they made people realize they were not alone…

— Adam Langer

“I understand that it’s disheartening to pour effort and money into a work of art and find that others do not value it with…

— Heidi Cullinan

I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is…

— Nicholas Sparks

I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to…

— Janet Evanovich

The only readers we get are people whom our subject interests. No one reads ads for amusement, long or short... Give them enough to…

— Claude C. Hopkins

There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader.

— David Bezmozgis

The people who encouraged me weren't necessarily writers or readers themselves. They were people who were just pleased to see me devote my life…

— Pankaj Mishra

The people who relate to Playboy, both readers and people who produce it, are not the way the critics think they are.

— Christie Hefner

“Empathy, the way that we can place ourselves, imaginatively, in the position of another person, is at the heart of what we do as…

— Brenda Walker

Half of the people in the world are below average.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

— Betsy Lerner